Burmese By Ear/Essential Myanmar Introduction to the Burmese Language John Okell

1.5. No, it isn't (contd).

3. numbers

Numbers       

tǎs’eh - hnǎs’eh - thoùn-zeh   တစ်ဆယ် - နှစ်ဆယ် - သုံးဆယ်  10–20–30   

lè-zeh - ngà-zeh - c’auq-s’eh  လေးဆယ် - ငါးဆယ် - ခြောက်ဆယ်  40-50-60   

k’un-nǎs’eh - shiq-s’eh - kò-zeh  ခုနှစ်ဆယ် - ရှစ်ဆယ် - ကိုးဆယ်  70-80-90   

tăya  တစ်ရာ  100   

Notes 

-s’eh/-zeh “ten”. In compound numbers (e.g. tăs’eh–hnăs’eh– thoùn-zeh) -s’eh is voiced to -zeh except after a syllable ending in -q or in -ă. Changing the pronunciation from s’ to z is known as “voicing”. For more see “Voicing Rule” in Appendix 1. 

t iq/t ă- “one”. When the numbers t iq, hniq, k’un-hniq are combined with s’eh, they are shortened, so instead of tiq-s’eh, hniq-s’eh, k’un-hniq-s’eh you hear: tăs’eh, hnăs’eh, k’un-năs’eh. We call this change from t iq to tă etc “weakening”. It takes place when tiq, hniq, k’un-hniq are combined with any other word: tăs’eh “one ten”, hnăya “two hundreds”, k’un-năt’aun “seven thousands”, tăk’weq “one cup”, and so on. 

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